Kolupayeva A. Pedagogical Foundations of Integrating Students with Special Psychological and Physical Needs into General Educational Institutions

The dissertation substantiates the theoretical and methodological approaches towards the integration of students with special psychological and physical needs into general educational institutions. It provides the results of analyzing and generalizing relevant psychological and pedagogical researches; reveals the contemporary scientific approaches towards this process and systematically analyzes international legislative, normative and legal provision of such integration. It also highlights the emerged scientific and organizational basis for such inclusion in post-Soviet states. The current Ukrainian theoretical and practical experience of integrated education of children with special psychological and physical needs is systematized; the legislative base for such education is analyzed and the scientific foundations for its development are determined; the results of a causal and systematic analysis of the attitudes among the educational process participants towards the inclusion are provided on the basis of an experimental testing of the proposed conceptual approaches and methodological designs. The integrated results of the conducted experimental inclusive education in Ukraine are generalized. As a result, an integral model of inclusive education for such children is proposed as the core basis for their integration into society at the present stage.